Thursday, August 5, 2004

Talking books used to help improve health care in Afghanistan. The Department of Health and Human Services has harnessed talking book technology, used to teach basic reading, math and geography skills to U.S. children, to provide basic health care information in Afghanistan. [Computerworld News]
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Apple Fans Pull for Jobs. News of Steve Jobs' cancer surgery has unsettled the Mac community like nothing else in recent years, resulting in a flood of forum postings and get-well cards. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Get well soon, Steve.

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Inetcam: Live Video Streaming to BREW Mobiles [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Toshiba's New 60GB 1.8-inch HDD Offers World's Highest Capacity [Wireless Watch Japan]
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GRO Design.

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GRO Design is a two five man design shop in the Netherlands which has worked with clients such as Samsung, Nokia, and Philips to design interesting alternatives to more staid and thoughtless product concepts. In example, look at the four I plucked from their site. Phone, okay easy enough. Vacuum cleaner? Hrm. Radio that uses a flat-speaker to stay super-thin? I like. And that's no moon; That's a refrigerator. (Thanks, JP!)

Read - HomePage [GRODesignNL]

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DesignFRONT Acrylic Radio and CD Player [Gizmodo]

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